Modular homes built for Ukrainian refugees projected to cost €442,000 each, damning report on OPW spending finds
The new report has damned the OPW, responsible for the project, over spiralling costs.
Costs have more than doubled for the urgent housing programme that was supposed to save the State money instead of paying for hotel rooms to house refugees fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Five hundred modular homes were to be rapidly built to house 2,000 beneficiaries of “temporary protection” after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Because of the urgency, a proper value for money investigation or cost benefit analysis was not carried out.
The original projected cost was €100m, but the project is now expected to cost €289.3m, according to the report today from the C & AG.
It sets out a catalogue of changes, including an increase in the targeted homes to 700, before it fell back to a lower revised figure. Meanwhile, there will be a further huge cost, because the expected BER home energy rating for the units was expected to be A2 — but they instead are found to be at the C1…
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